Mixed Feelings: Emotional Phenomena, Rationality and Vagueness

Marion Ledwig

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Mixed Feelings

Emotional Phenomena, Rationality and Vagueness

Marion Ledwig

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110319453

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This book opens up a new area of research by not only considering the rationality of such diverse phenomena as ordinary emotions, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, psychotic depression, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, but also by evaluating the question whether the vagueness of these diverse disorders and emotions poses an obstacle to the rationality of these phenomena. As these emotional phenomena turn out to be vague on many different levels, an explanation is found for the millennia long dispute of which kind of phenomena fall under the emotions and whether such diverse phenomena as hope and alexithymia fall under the emotions. Since vagueness can be most easily identified in mixed feelings, the rationality of mixed feelings will also be dealt with.

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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 1. Vagueness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. Emotion Theories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 3. The Brain and the Emotions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. The Rational Functions of the Emotions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 5. Hope and Alexithymia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 6. Vagueness and Rationality in Mixed Feelings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 7. Vagueness and Rationality in Anxiety Disorders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 8. Vagueness and Rationality in Moods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 273

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110319453

Hardcover

Published: February 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110319125